Let's Push Things Forward: A Survey on Robot Pushing

Understand

As robot make their way out of factories into human environments, outer space, and beyond, they require the skill to manipulate their environment in multifarious, unforeseeable circumstances.

• With this regard, pushing is an essential motion primitive that dramatically extends a robot's manipulation repertoire.
• In this work, we review the robotic pushing literature.
• While focusing on work concerned with predicting the motion of pushed objects, we also cover relevant applications of pushing for planning and control.